I moved into this home 3 years ago and it had a pond, had 1 goldfish in it was fairly small. I never did anything with the pond. I noticed it used to have some type of pump but was removed, the house sat empty for some years.
Well here we are 3 years down the road and the ole lady wants to add more goldfish to the pond, surprisingly the fish that was there when we first moved in is HUGE like 4 times the size it was. Figured it was from all the algae and lawn clippings being thrown in over the summers of mowing.
Ole lady added about 12 more fish to the pond so I been curious with if that was even okay to do without a filter or pump or some type of maintenance. She told me we had 2 dead fish this morning so after some quick searching I realized more fish we needed more oxygen so I went out and bought myself a pump, filter box, hose, waterfall spillway box thing, and just threw it together to have some movement for the fish.
Here is what I purchased:
Total Pond 800 GPH Pond Pump Model # DD11800
Total Pond 3/4 in. x 20 ft. Corrugated Tubing
Total Pond 8 in. Spillway Waterfall Cascade Model # A16575
Total Pond Universal Pump Filter Box Model # MF13010
I paln on going in and hiding all the tubing etc cleaning it up. I do not wish to have anymore dead fish and would like to have this properly going. It has a bunch of moss seaweed in it, which im guessing im going to have to manually clean out. I also have quite a bit of frogs that are always in and around it.
I have never treated or added anything to the pond, I have never fed the fish. Also I believe the bottom of the pond is kind of like a lake and all thick mud and gunk.
Where do I go from here?
Thank you, this was a picture taken yesterday after the filter box and pump with spillway was installed.
Well here we are 3 years down the road and the ole lady wants to add more goldfish to the pond, surprisingly the fish that was there when we first moved in is HUGE like 4 times the size it was. Figured it was from all the algae and lawn clippings being thrown in over the summers of mowing.
Ole lady added about 12 more fish to the pond so I been curious with if that was even okay to do without a filter or pump or some type of maintenance. She told me we had 2 dead fish this morning so after some quick searching I realized more fish we needed more oxygen so I went out and bought myself a pump, filter box, hose, waterfall spillway box thing, and just threw it together to have some movement for the fish.
Here is what I purchased:
Total Pond 800 GPH Pond Pump Model # DD11800
Total Pond 3/4 in. x 20 ft. Corrugated Tubing
Total Pond 8 in. Spillway Waterfall Cascade Model # A16575
Total Pond Universal Pump Filter Box Model # MF13010
I paln on going in and hiding all the tubing etc cleaning it up. I do not wish to have anymore dead fish and would like to have this properly going. It has a bunch of moss seaweed in it, which im guessing im going to have to manually clean out. I also have quite a bit of frogs that are always in and around it.
I have never treated or added anything to the pond, I have never fed the fish. Also I believe the bottom of the pond is kind of like a lake and all thick mud and gunk.
Where do I go from here?
Thank you, this was a picture taken yesterday after the filter box and pump with spillway was installed.
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